Posted on 08/27/2009 11:19:42 AM PDT by OldDeckHand
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The young senator inspired a new generation of voters with his message of change and extended America's hand to the global community in an effort to promote a different kind of diplomacy.
One magazine characterized him as having a "quick charm, the patience to listen, a sure social touch, an interest in knowledge and a greed for facts."
A biographer recalled that he "had to touch the secret fears and ambivalent longings of the American heart, divine and speak to the desires of a swiftly changing nation -- his message grounded on his own intuition of some vague and spreading desire for national renewal."
Those words could have been written about Barack Obama's rise to the presidency last year but actually come from coverage about the ascendancy of John F. Kennedy to the White House.
Kennedy's presidency is remembered as "Camelot," for the Broadway show about an idealized King Arthur's Court that opened the month after Kennedy won the presidency in November 1960.
After JFK's assassination in 1963, the Camelot legacy was handed down to younger brother Robert Kennedy, who served as John Kennedy's attorney general and was later elected to the Senate from New York.
Ted Kennedy assumed the mantle after Robert Kennedy was assassinated during his run for the presidency in 1968.
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Hell...he’s half way there....he already thinks he’s king.....
Yet another thing hijacked by the liberals to push their agenda, discounting entirely what JFK might have felt. I don’t imagine that JFK would have approved of Teddy’s or Obama’s anti-war stances, their desire to hand out free government bucks, nor their desire to see if they can double the entire national debt in four short years.
How can one man be so supremely perfect?? [/s]
Amazing to me that anyone could write those words. This is a man who pulls "facts" out of his tuchis, for ex, his claim that doctors are paid 30-50K to amputate a foot.
Every time he opens his mouth I ask myself why the RATS couldnt at least have nominated Hillary.
As another FReeper pointed out:
Camelot is a country that never existed and there was a lady in the lake
He is God’s partner in matters of life and death
Camelot was a musical the JFK liked. Upon his death, his wife pitched it to a friendly journalist as a was to mythmake the Kennedy years.
It’s since become a propaganda point to revise the historical record with all sorts of “details”.
It is like “Paul is dead”. The symbolism is where you look for it. Camelot was a propaganda myth. Why persist in the mythmaking?
Oh brother, the guy was a bloated, corrupt, communist who never had a real job. Despite a few of the brothers who served in the military bravely, the family by in large is a bunch of bucktooth retard progeny of a bootlegger Irish gangster.
Thats what the media does, report myths
That’s what the Pravda Media does.
now tell us what you really think
Funny how everyone blames the internet but the saying “You can’t believe everything you read” goes back MUCH MUCH MUCH farther than 1970.
And don’t forget that little know fact that we have 57 states in our Union, and he’s been to every one...and I’m sure he has..in his coke dreams.
If they’re going to talk “Camelot,” they should mention the Lady In The Lake.
(joke stolen from Jim Treacher)
Someone has to finish turning the screws on the American people!
“He’s lincoln! He’s FDR! He’s JFK! He’s RFK! He’s Teddy! He’s Jesus”!
...you missed one...he’s also a Superfreak!
Why don’t these damn liberal commentators just shut up?
You had to see mathews Hardball MSNBC show yesterday on this topic to believe it. mathews already thought Obama was the black JFK.
All hail and salute the social action Resident! Utopian Savior of America! Creator of Hopey -Changey, Robin Hood to the Masses, and the Bain of Capitalists and Baby Boomers everywhere in the world!( Don't Bank in Switzerland!)
Obama is done, cooked, kaput. And now he will try to use force and illegal excutive orders, and the IRS to seize American's wealth.I mean he learned from the best!
Oh brother, the guy was a bloated, corrupt, communist who never had a real job. Despite a few of the brothers who served in the military bravely, the family by in large is a bunch of bucktooth retard progeny of a bootlegger Irish gangster.
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All true ,, but he just keeps on giving ,, at this time of great need he has sacrificed greatly becoming personally “shovel ready” to assist in the recovery.
I think the left’s reporters really do want obama killed as in Camelot fashion.
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